HDK Leader: Agreements are violated
The Democratic Party of Armenia (HDK) is leaving the newly formed electoral alliance formed by several opposition parties, HDK Leader Aram Sargsyan told journalists on Friday. The main figures of the alliance are former Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian, former Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan and influential political figure Victor Dallakyan. Sargsyan says the decision about his party’s withdrawal [from the alliance] was taken on Thursday. The HDK leader says before joining the alliance they had submitted four clauses and reached a preliminary agreement on them with the other forces in the alliance, but ‘the agreements have been broken.’ “First of all, we proposed to form a joint council where decisions would be made by consensus. The most important issue to be discussed by the council was the program and composition of the alliance. However, the council has not been formed to this day. Everyone is focused on the electoral lists, which, in our opinion, is a secondary issue which does not have fundamental importance,” he said. Aram Sargsyan did not rule out that the HDK might participate in the upcoming parliamentary elections with other political forces and said ‘negotiations are currently underway with other alliances.’ Several weeks ago, Vartan Oskanian’s Hamakhmbum (Consolidation), Viktor Dallakyan’s Errord Hanrapetutyun (Third Republic) and Aram Sargsyan’s Democratic Party of Armenia (HDK) announced their intention to form an alliance to jointly challenge the government in the April parliamentary elections.
